The following article, titled 'EXPLORERS MAY HAVE FOUND LOST SQUADRON', appeared in the Tuesday, May 21, 1991 issue of THE HERALD MAGAZINE (Provo, Utah) and was written by Associated Press Writer Richard Cole:

"MIAMI (AP) -- One of the Bermuda Triangle's deepest mysteries may be solved -- high tech explorers have located what appear to be the wrecks of five Navy planes that vanished off Florida in 1945, a salvor said. "The five TBM Avengers, four of which appear to be in excellent condition, were spotted in 750 feet of water, about 10 miles off Fort Lauderdale, said Robert Cervoni, managing director of Scientific Search Project. "'It was incredible -- we were filled with excitement,' said Cervoni. 'We rushed out to the library and tried to read everything we could about the Bermuda Triangle.' "The exploration vessel Deep See, armed with sonar instruments and underwater cameras, made the discovery in early May while searching for sunken Spanish galleons. The company released the information last week after filing their salvage claim in Miami federal court. "The U.S. District Judge Kenneth Ryskamp granted the initial claim, although the Navy has been granted a chance to contest it, said Barbara Locke, an attorney for the company. "Navy spokesmen in Washington, D.C., had no immediate reaction. "The team's first priority is to send submersible robots down to the site to determine if the planes are indeed the so-called 'Lost Squadron,' which disappeared Dec. 5, 1945, during a training flight from the Naval Airbase in Fort Lauderdale. "No trace of the planes or the pilots was ever found after they apparently became DISORIENTED over the Atlantic. The disappearance helped build the myth of the Bermuda Triangle, an area bounded by Bermuda, Miami, and Puerto Rico where ships and planes seemed to vanish mysteriously. "The daughter of one of the pilots said the news was hard to accept. Susan Powers-Spengler, the daughter of Capt. Edward Powers Jr., was a 15-month-old toddler when her father disappeared with the squadron. "'After all these years you want something to turn up, yet when you hear that they were 10 miles off of Fort Lauderdale... it's

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real difficult to deal with because they were so close,' said Ms. Powers-Spengler, who lives in Connecticut. 'It's been very difficult tonight.' "The team's archaeologist, Ted Darcy, of the Kailua, Hawaii- based aircraft recovery company said that while initial indications were positive, he cannot yet confirm the planes' identities with certainty. THE NAVY LOST MORE THAN 100 TBM AVENGERS OFF FLORIDA, he noted. "One link to the Lost Squadron is a number spotted on the sunken lead plane -- 28 -- the same as the number on Flight 19's lead plane, said Darcy. A second link is the letters FT visible on some of the planes, the Navy's designation for Fort Lauderdale-based aircraft. "Another positive indication is the number of the aircraft. No other ditching of five Avengers was ever reported by the Navy, said Darcy. "'Four of the planes are in relatively good condition,' said Cervoni. 'All the glass is intact, there's not much damage. But the flight leader's was broken cleanly in two.' "That raises the possibility that the lead plane, which had a shorter range than the others, ran out of fuel, and the others ditched behind it. "Graham Hawkes, a top designer of submersibles who was on the Deep See when the planes were spotted, said their spacing pattern suggested they went down within about two minutes of each other. "Hawkes said historians say the other pilots, expecting they too would run out of fuel before reaching their home base, had agreed to ditch at the same spot when the first plane went down in an effort to make rescue easier. "NO HUMAN REMAINS were visible in the sunken planes, Cervoni said. "Cervoni said that while the Deep See and the submersibles, which are being operated by Hawkes of Deep Ocean Engineering, are sufficient to establish the planes' identifications, actual salvage would require a barge and cranes, along with special chemicals and equipment to preserve the aircraft."

The question that should be asked here is this: Were the Avenger pilots, as well as the THOUSANDS of persons who have disappeared in the 'triangle' over the years, the hapless victims of some freak electromagnetic phenomena; or were they the targets of some ancient and sinister force or intelligence? * * *

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Steven Brodie was a man of many talents and hobbies, among them painting and rock collecting. Several years back, he decided to investigate a certain area in Arizona where he had heard quartz crystals could be found in abundance. Brodie convinced a friend of his, also an avid rock collector, to join him on an expedition. After purchasing a ticket on a passenger train, they traveled to a certain small community in Arizona, which was near the site they desired to explore. According to researcher John J. Robinson, who related the account as he heard it from Steve Brodie, the name of the Arizona town was not given. John J. Robinson, by the way, was a well- known UFOlogist in the 1950's, and the account as it was related to him was mentioned by Robinson during an interview which was

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heard by tens of thousands of listeners to the 'Long John Nebel' radio talk-show on station W.O.R. of New York, in March of 1957. The two rock hounds had their eyes on one particular bluff which they could see in the distance, from the town they were in. Other town residents heard about their plans and warned them against going to that bluff, as SEVERAL people had in the past disappeared without a trace in that area. Brodie and his friend blew off their warnings, considering them mere superstitions which they should not take seriously, and set out towards the bluff. They had no sooner approached the bluff than out of the shadows emerged two beings who were each cowled in a dark cloak and hood, making it very difficult to discern their features or whether they were even human or not. After being confronted, Brodie's friend panicked and attempted to make a run for it. Steve swore that at this point one of the black cloaked figures raised some kind of weapon and a brilliant pencil beam of light shot from it and hit his friend, who immediately fell down motionless. From what Brodie could gather his friend had been killed, although he never did see his body after that. Following this one of the 'beings' came up to Brodie, who did not resist but stood where he was in shock, and he or it placed some type of device over his head, like a metal headset with two metallic 'discs' which fitted over his temples. He started to lose consciousness. The next thing he remembered after gaining consciousness again was of being in some type of dungeon or cavern like enclosure in a prison-like cell. Others were there was well. Most of the people there seemed to be under some type of trance or mind control, and as far as he knew, he was one of them. He dimly recalls 'waking up' a few times, but usually when this happened one of the dark robed creatures would come over to the cage or enclosure where he was and point a rod-shaped device at him, at which point he would black out again. During one of his brief conscious episodes, he had a chance to talk to another prisoner, a girl, who told him that the dark-robed figures were known as the 'dero'. That, basically, was all that he remembered. The incredible part of the story, however, was the fact that several months afterwards he suddenly 'came to' or became conscious once again. He just found himself walking down the streets of New York City one day! He had no idea how he got there, or where he had been the past six months. It was like 'waking up' out of a bad dream or nightmare, the majority of which he could not remember. In addition to this, he found that someone had given him a haircut (he didn't know whom). Whether or not this account has any connection to the many 'rumors' of strange and ancient caverns and tunnels below New York City is uncertain. Some cautiously speak of such tunnels being used by a MIB-like secret society, connecting with the lowest sub-basements of the Empire State building and other structures, and as being the possible destination of many of those who mysteriously end up 'missing' in New York City every year. Whether these are mere unfounded 'rumors' is anyones guess, at least until solid evidence 'surfaces' to prove such accounts. John J. Robinson made several visits to Mr. Brodie, and from his perceptions of the men he felt that Brodie was sincere in what he was saying, but was constantly paranoid and in fear that he was 'being followed' or that someone or something was

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constantly watching or stalking him. Also, Brodie would often paint bizarre other-worldly landscapes, even though he wasn't used to painting in that style until after his 'experience', which Robinson thought peculiar. Then one day Robinson stopped by Brodie's apartment to pay him a visit and he was no where to be found. No one seemed to know what happened to him, and that was the last time Mr. Robinson ever saw Steve again. The 'Steve Brodie' account, incidentally, was also related in an article in the Vol. 1, No. 3, 1971 issue of 'STRANGE' magazine, and also in early issues of 'SAUCER NEWS', of which John J. Robinson, who lived in Jersey City, New Jersey at the time, was assistant editor.

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